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Besides Chess for Android, I have been working on another project, which has been officially released today!

Chess for Glass is Glassware that runs directly on Glass. You can enter moves by simply saying the moves, or by using the touch pad. Other features include a choice in board color, spoken move announcements, and the ability to import any third party chess engine to replace the friendly built-in Java engine. Chess for Glass recognizes Chessbase compatible engines that are installed as other application on the same Glass device, and supports both the popular UCI and XBoard/WinBoard protocols.

Because Komodo 8 is distributed as an Android Chessbase compatible engine, it is immediately available for import in Chess for Android on your phone, tablet, or smart-watch, and in Chess for Glass on your Glass device. Many thanks to Mark, Larry, and Jeremy for making this amazing engine available. I wish I could have shared my excitement over this with Don too.

Please verify whether Komodo works under Glass version too. Because under Android standard, it writes directly to CfA registry entries in such a way to direct the GUI towoards its own .so file, which itself checks presence of the registration file.

Therefore, it doesn't work if the binary is manually installed and gives "terminated" message.

It must be verified that Glass complies to Komodo's licence checking method.

Hi Gurcan,No worries! Although the distribution and licensing details are of course in the hands of the Komodo team, the Chessbase compatible format works well with both Chess for Android as well as Chess for Glass. The engine is directly available for import without the additional install step. The screenshots above are, of course, really Komodo 8 running on a Glass device!Aart

Luckily, the feedback on the first release of Chess for Glass has overall been positive. Criticism I have seen, and also agree with, focus on (1) mistakes made by voice recognition with similarly sounding files (since b, c, d, e, and g all sound similar) and (2) placing the voice menu over the chess board.

The next release addresses the first issue with the ability to enable a phonetic alphabet for voice input. In this mode, voice input uses the phonetic alphabet for files (alpha, bravo, charlie, etc) without further from or to designation. Example: "ok glass, pawn, echo two, echo four" plays the pawn from e2 to e4. Although uncommon in chess notation, this form of voice input is less prone to sound ambiguities.